EXCLUSIVE Kamala Harris' VP choice Tim Walz had secret fling with daughter of top Chinese Communist official during teaching stint in China
28 Oct 2024 By Ben Ashford
Tim Walz had a romance with Jenna Wang, daughter of a CCP official in 1989.She said her father Bin Hui would disown her for fraternizing with a westerner.
Tim Walz had a secret fling with the daughter of a high-ranking Communist official during his 1989 teaching stint in China, DailyMail.com can exclusively reveal.
Jenna Wang, 59, claims the VP hopeful showered her with gifts and seduced her at his poky staff accommodation at No. 1 High School in Foshan, Guangdong Province.
The lovers could not risk holding hands or showing affection in public because Wang's dad was a high-ranking figure in the Chinese Communist Party who would disown her for fraternizing with a westerner.
But their romance blossomed behind closed doors as they sipped tea, made love and listened to George Michael hits– leading the then 24-year-old Wang to dream about marriage and a new life in the United States.
No proposal was forthcoming from the future Minnesota governor, however, and the shame of being treated 'like a prostitute' eventually left Wang feeling angry and suicidal, she claims.
'Tim was very passionate and very romantic. I can still remember dancing with him to our favorite song, Careless Whisper,' she told DailyMail.com in an exclusive interview.
'The fact we couldn't touch or kiss in public just made it all the more exciting and intense when we were finally alone.
'We were deeply in love and I wanted to marry him and start a family. When it didn't happen, I felt very unhappy and sad. Tim's behavior was very selfish.'
Walz's time in China is already a source of controversy after he misleadingly claimed in interviews and congressional transcriptsthat he was in Hong Kong when the Tiananmen Square protests erupted from April to June of 1989.
It later transpired that he didn't join the staff of nonprofit WorldTeach in China until August 1989, prompting Walz, 60, to profess during the recent VP debate that he was a 'knucklehead' when recalling dates.
It was several months after he arrived in Foshan that Walz is said to have fallen head over heels for Wang, a pretty, highly educated English language teacher at the nearby No. 8 Middle School.
She was attending one of his lectures to brush up on her pronunciation when the then-25-year-old Walz slipped her headphones aside and whispered into her ear: 'You are very beautiful.'
'Tim was very handsome. I loved his eyes and his big mouth. We talked afterwards and he was very complimentary about my English,' Wang told DailyMail.com.
'My colleagues couldn't speak whole sentences but Tim told me that if he closed his eyes and listened it was like being back in America.'
Wang had a friend on the same teaching staff as Walz so she was able to gain access to the exclusive school where she could visit him in his one-bed staff digs.
Over the weeks that followed the lovebirds grew closer, walking in the park and going to dances in the evening where there was less chance of being spotted by communist snoops.
They avoided overt shows of affection in case it got back to Wang's father Bin Hui, who was an important CCP official and chairman of a labor union in her native city of Guilin.
Walz would travel to Hong Kong and Macau on the weekends – cities that were more or less inaccessible for all but the Chinese elite – and bring back Western-style luxuries like blue jeans, Ray-Ban sunglasses and jewelry.
'He couldn't sing and when he tried to dance he found it very hard. I could tell he was in the military,' Wang said.
'But we talked for hours and hours, we stayed in bed, we had sex. He continued to buy me gifts….
At Walz's direction, Wang says she sent off a passport photo and information about herself to an address in the States, believing it was part of the process to secure her a visa.
When the future running mate of presidential hopeful Kamala Harris flew back to China in 1992, she resigned her coveted teaching role, believing she was about to embark on a new life….
'People were staring at us. I tried to reject it because I was very afraid. Teachers were supposed to set an example,' she said.
The couple made sure to book two hotel rooms wherever they stayed but on an overnight train journey Walz insisted that Wang sleep in his cabin.
The conductor shone a flashlight on Wang in the middle of the night and started to admonish her, only to retreat when Walz, afforded more respect as a westerner, woke up.
When the pair reached Hainan Island, known for its tropical climate and beach resorts, Wang was ready to confront him about their future plans…
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